Kumpula campus library does a follow-up survey on the use of printed journals. The statistics are used in planning future acquisitions. You will find trolleys near the shelves and tables next to the copy machines. Please return the periodical you ……

Book History Online (BHO), which was in trial use on January-February, has been now acquired. BHO is the international bibliography in the field of book and library history. It provides a comprehensive survey of all scholarly publications written from a &…

As of Monday, March 2, you get long-term loans on material from the Minerva unit. Books borrowed or renewed from Minerva on or after 2 March 2015 will not be due until 6 August 2015. You have time to borrow …

JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is peer reviewed scientific video journal. University of Helsinki has access to new section in JoVE, Clinical and Translational Medicine. Other sections available in University of Helsinki a…

The Annual Research Seminar: Researchers at the Researchers´ Room of The Library of Parliament Each researcher presents her/his own research topic. Refreshments. Welcome! Tuesday 3rd of March 2015 at 13 – 16 hours Lecture Room Aurora, The Libr…

There will be a service break on university’s room reservation system WebTimmi on Thursday, February the 12th. The estimated duration of the break is from 8 am until noon. During the break the system will be updated and can not …

Prerequisites:
-The participant is a registered doctoral student at Helsinki
University. The course is primarily directed at doctoral students at Viikki Campus.
-Doctoral students at other campuses can participate if there is space
available.
-Before the course the participants should have basic information seeking
skills and know how to use some reference management software. (If you
feel your skills need improvement you can attend e.g. Information Resources in Life Sciences and RefWorks in English -courses.)

The aim of the course: During the course participants learn
information seeking and management skills that are useful when
conducting research.

Information Resources in Life Sciences, 2x45minTarget group: The course suits well needs of students making their Bachelor's or Master's seminar. It suits also needs of everybody who wants to update information literacy skills.
Preceding studies: You know the basics of using the computer.
Aim: The main focus is in the web information resources of the following subject areas: pharmacy, veterinary medicine, forestry, agriculture, biosciences, and environmental sciences. You will learn to find books and articles about a specific subject, e.g. for writing an essay; you will be able to define suitable search terms, perform a search in a database and evaluate the retrieved data.Content
a general picture of available information resources and information retrieval

library catalogues

electronic journals

reference databases e.g. Web of Science, ProQuest, Medline

help how to identify and use relevant information resourcesLearning material

RefWorks - Reference Management Software, 2x45 minTarget group: The course suits well needs of students starting their Bachelor's or Master's seminar.
Preceding studies You have experience of using databases. If you don't have basic information retrieval skills, you should attend the course Information Resources in Life Sciences.

Content: RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography manager. You will learn the basic functions of Refworks:

import references from reference databases and electronic journals

create your own personal database

use your references in writing your papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography